The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire


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The Ottoman Empire was the last great Muslim political entity, emerging in the later Middle Ages and continuing its existence until the early 20th century and the creation of the modern state of Turkey. The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire is an in-depth treatise covering the political, social, and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the last member of the lineage of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean empires and the only one that reached the modern times both in terms of internal structure and world history. Key Features: o Historical maps o A detailed chronology o A list of Ottoman sultans and grand viziers o A dictionary consisting of 781 entries o An analytical bibliography o Details where original Turkish documents can be located




Historical Dictionary of the Ottoman Empire


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Here you will find an in-depth treatise covering the political social, and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the last member of the lineage of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean empires and the only one that reached the modern times both in terms of internal structure and world history.




Ṭāhā Ḥusain's Education


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This is a study of the life and work of Taha Husein, rightly regarded as the father of modern Arabic literature, and whose work is widely used as introductory texts for students of the language.




Syria and Bilad Al-Sham Under Ottoman Rule


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This volume brings together some thirty essays in a Festschrift in honour of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, the leading historian of Ottoman Syria, touching on themes in socio-economic history which have been Rafeq's principal academic concerns.




Villes ottomanes à la fin de l'Empire


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De Salonique à Alexandrie, en passant par Istanbul et Bagdad, avec quelques haltes dans les Balkans et en Asie-Mineure, c'est un véritable voyage au coeur des villes ottomanes du siècle dernier auquel ce livre nous convie. Dans les grands ports ouverts sur l'Occident, bien sûr, mais même dans les bourgades les plus reculées, d'un bout à l'autre de cet immense Empire que l'on disait être "l'homme malade" de l'Europe, le lecteur découvrira une activité fiévreuse, intense, menée par les agents de l'Etat ou les élites urbaines, pour faire de vieilles cités orientales des agglomérations plus ouvertes et plus saines, mieux ordonnées et mieux bâties ; bref, des villes modernes à l'exemple de l'urbanisme occidental. Une modernisation accompagnée souvent d'après compétitions, voire d'affrontements violents, entre des communautés qui, à l'heure des nationalismes, cohabitent de plus en plus difficilement dans l'espace urbain. Une modernisation inégale, inachevée, mais qui marquera d'une empreinte durable les villes des Balkans et du Moyen-Orient. En cours de route, le lecteur aura échappé à une épidémie de choléra, fait connaissance avec un gouverneur passionné de théâtre et d'architecture, et découvert, au fin fond de l'Anatolie, une vaste cité-jardins à l'urbanisme étonnamment moderne ! Issu d'un séminaire organisé à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales en 1989-90, le présent ouvrage est le fruit d'un travail collectif auquel ont participé historiens, urbanistes, architectes et spécialistes de l'histoire de l'art et des sciences.







The Image of an Ottoman City


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This urban and architectural study of Aleppo reconstructs the city’s evolution over the first two centuries of Ottoman rule and proposes a new model for the understanding of the reception and adaptation of imperial forms, institutions and norms in a provincial setting.




The Urban Social History of the Middle East, 1750-1950


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The great cities of the Middle East and North Africa have long attracted the attention and interest of historians. With the discovery and wider use over the last few decades of Islamic court records and Ottoman administrative documents, our knowledge of Middle Eastern cities between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries has vastly expanded. Drawing upon a treasure trove of documents and using a variety of methodologies, the contributors succeed in providing a significant overview of the ways in which Middle Eastern cities can be studied, as well as an excellent introduction to current literature in the field.




History of Ottoman Turks


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Aleppo


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Aleppo is one of the longest-surviving cities of the ancient and Islamic Middle East. Until recently it enjoyed a thriving urban life—in particular an active traditional suq, whose origins can be traced across many centuries. Its tangle of streets still follow the Hellenistic grid and above it looms the great Citadel, which contains recently-uncovered remains of a Bronze/Iron Age temple complex, suggesting an even earlier role as a ‘high place’ in the Canaanite tradition. In the Arab Middle Ages, Aleppo was a strongpoint of the Islamic resistance to the Crusader presence. Its medieval Citadel is one of the most dramatic examples of a fortified enclosure in the Islamic tradition. In Mamluk and Ottoman times, the city took on a thriving commercial role and provided a base for the first European commercial factories and consulates in the Levant. Its commercial life funded a remarkable building tradition with some hundreds of the 600 or so officially-declared monuments dating from these eras, and its diverse ethnic mixture, with significant Kurdish, Turkish, Christian and Armenian communities provide a richer layering of influences on the city’s life. In this volume, Ross Burns explores the rich history of this important city, from its earliest history through to the modern era, providing a thorough treatment of this fascinating city history, accessible both to scholarly readers as well as to the general public interested in a factual and comprehensive survey of the city’s past.